Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years. Continue reading
Third monthly edition of the Slator Buyer Tracker featuring some of the most important changes happening among buy-side decision-makers. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Travel & Retail Localization Report
In-depth report on localization for the global Travel and Retail sector. Analysis of the competitive landscape, technologies, and actionable insights from major buyers and users. Continue reading
Key Takeaways from SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019
Key highlights and insights from SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 including video interview, photos, and speaker presentations. Continue reading
Slator Job Index Jumps Over 2 Points to Record High in December 2019
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity trends across the global language industry, rises again in December 2019; sets new high. Continue reading
BLEU Has Measured Machine Translation Quality Since 2002. It’s Fast Becoming Useless
As machine translation quality improves, precision-based metrics struggle to identify the best systems. Why have newer metrics not ousted longtime standard BLEU? Continue reading
Photo Gallery — SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019
SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 photo gallery including pictures taken at the main conference and the Networking Reception hosted by Diuna Language Services. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Rev Pay Cut, Shift to Hourly Rates, Edit Distance, Translation Regulations
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts? Continue reading
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Lionbridge Hires Former Moody’s Exec Tony Stoupas as Chief Technology Officer
Lionbridge hires former Moody’s CIO, Tony Stoupas, as Chief Technology Officer. Stoupas will oversee global technology, development, and information security. Continue reading
What We Learned From Listening in on the Straker Translations H1 2020 Investor Call
Straker Translations holds investor call to announce first-half 2020 results; eyes more acquisitions and strikes partnership with AppTek to expand media localization offering. Continue reading
Machine Translation and ASR Provider AppTek Buys Speech Tech Firm Ignite-Tek
MT and speech recognition company AppTek expands natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities with acquisition of speech technology provider Ignite-Tek. Continue reading
Language Industry Hires at EasyTranslate, lingoking, Lilt, Vistatec, and Summa Linguae
EasyTranslate names a CMO; lingoking, a CTO; Lilt, a Director of Services; Vistatec, a Director of Sales and a Strategic Accounts Director; and Summa Linguae, a Nordic Sales Manager. Continue reading
Former Translation Head at EU’s Translation Centre Joins European Investment Bank
Thierry Fontenelle leaves EU Translation Centre (CdT) to join European Investment Bank (EIB) as Head of the Linguistic Services Division. Tamara Ferlusca replaces him. Continue reading
A Gen Z Take on Preparing Translation Students for the Realities of the Language Industry
As the language industry becomes more and more competitive, what are universities doing to ensure that their translation students are ready to enter the marketplace? Continue reading
Transcription Provider Rev.com Battles Media Firestorm After Freelancer Rate Cut
Rev cast as gig economy villain over sudden, poorly communicated rate cut for freelancers. Saga may serve as cautionary tale for translation startups. Continue reading
Summa Linguae to Acquire Canada-Based Localizer and Data-Annotator Globalme
In crucial step toward planned private equity sale, language service provider Summa Linguae signs deal to buy Canada-based localization and data annotation provider Globalme. Continue reading
Appen Shares Rally on Full-Year Earnings Upgrade
Australia-listed data annotation provider Appen upgrades its full-year earnings for 2019, forecasting underlying EBITDA of close to AUD 100m (USD 68m). Continue reading
The Winning Papers from the World’s Largest Natural Language Processing Conference
The world’s largest NLP conference, EMNLP, announces the winners of the 2019 awards for Best Paper, Best Paper Runner-Up, Best Demo Paper and Best Resource Paper. Continue reading
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